@@michalturlik7309 No. Tim is still active and calling the shots. He just stopped caring for Unreal. And now he's been cock-whipped with that Tencent and Fortnite money to ever care for Unreal anymore.
That is of course the same principle like when playing Baldurs Gate 2! Whats on the screen is the one thing.... what you see in your mind, on the other hand, is what makes a good game!
5 years later, in the dystopic reality of the current year, Epic instead washes their hands of the original Unreal and wont even let you buy it anymore, delisting the very namesake of their entire family of game engines
There's a fantastic remake in progress that bumps the graphics up to PS3 levels as seen in the Bioshock / Bioshock 2 days. It's kind of like the Half-Life "Black Mesa" remake, but of Unreal.
It's probably because of licenses and stuff like that, we all know how greedy (You could say Un-Epic) Epic games is ever since Fortnite. While VALVe openly supports mods and standalone games of their IPs on their engine. Epic used to do that to, hosting modding contests like "Make something *Unreal" .
A cyclopean game.So immersive that I even used to wonder what lies there, beyond the horizon. I was a 10 years old kid back then but I will never forget this masterpiece. This game gave me memories and feelings I cannot describe using words.
I was seventeen when I first saw and played the original 1998 Unreal. I still remember the beauty and the exploration that I was facing and enjoying every sec. It was the time of the pc desktop graphics coming in our houses. 3dfx, Powervr, Ati, Nvidia and many others. It was the time when I learned to fly. The 90's will always be remembered as the best years for the IT and not only.
Your ship has crash landed on an unknown planet. Look around. Crystal clear water shimmers. Shadows shift. Alien architecture fades into the horizon. Darkness falls. Walkways glow. Godless temples beckon. You are afraid. You are in the real world... but it is like no world you have ever known. You are an uninvited guest in the fastest, sleekest, most beautiful 3D world ever created. Live it. Breathe it. Survive it. Unreal. Alter your reality...forever.
@@adam-xt8te That guy on the Vortex Rikers driver seat who gasps one last time, he is technically alive until you approach him 😂 Next time I play I won't to near him, that'll keep him alive, lol.
this, ported to unreal and played with a VR headset ... it would have the same emotional impact as in 99 when I exited Vortex Rikers for the first time and I was hit by the open sky above, the music and the cute "bunnies" hoping around. Amazing work and really brought up some memories :)
Oh man, nostalgia hits hard on that one. Still I remember being 16 years old, eating pancakes, and don't having any bigger life problems. Every Unreal level was something new. Still remember how much fun gave fighting Skaarj and their ways of evading projectiles or how Na Pali haven blew up my mind with floating islands. That was something out of this world. Thanks Ludvik for your work!
I've just found your remake and I can't believe how awesome, how beautiful it is! I was watching the video with my heart racing, on the verge of bursting into tears. Thank you soooo much! Unreal is my favourite game as well
This is truly insane! If i saw a remake looking this good, - i would probably faint on the spot. Back in 1998, Unreal made a lot of noise and headlines - yet eventually everything fell short of expectations. This here, could be the light at the end of the tunnel, which would finally do the Unreal campaign (including the bravado slogans and the fancy box) - a long deserved justice.
Saying thank you is not enough. This video is a dream come true for us who loved that sudden change of atmosphere, that new world appearing at once. And the music. That music! Excellent work, excellent idea.
Very cool. Really great work. Especially, I like Vortex Rikers. IMO, original Unreal nature was more jungle-like and exotic (unreal). This one looks quite midlatitudes. That a little broke my expectations. I believe for total remake one should make templates for unreal plants. No matter what I said :), really good work. Thanks.
I remember my feelings first time I got out of crumbling Vortex Rikers vessel. I was standing there in awe and astonishment looking around myself. What a contrast between sultry and blood-soaked premises of the ship and this vast and breathtaking vista. And this kind of graphics would make this immersion even more convincing. Hail to potential remake!
Ерден Жумабеков Меня тогда поразили вид облаков и воды, а в корабле отражения от пола, и то как через лопасти винта преломляется лучи света, для 1998 года это было просто взрыв мозга. Так же жду ремейк))
My skin crawled. I guessed this moment from the first second... One small but important detail is missing: when you look at the sky, there is no soaring bird. It's been more than 20 years since I first stepped out of a wrecked ship and looked up at the sky... I am now 46 years old, but I remember this moment as yesterday... A smile and tears when I read the comments. Well, I wasn't the only survivor on that ship... )))
Ever since the announcement of Black Mesa Source, the remake of Half Life 1 (which also released in 1998).. I've been hoping for an UNREAL GOLD remake also. This youtube video is the best example of that so far. Whoever made this map, please make a few others!! Like the Castle map used for the game menu. Also spire + skytown would be cool.
Absolutely amazing. I would make the environment a little more true to the game though (more alien world like, glowing water etc) This game needs a remake. This game was so visually impressive for the time and when combined with the music the atmosphere was top notch.
I keep coming back to this video, and this video and the original game really make me want to pick up learning Unreal Engine again to make a playable level.
Making Unreal based game in Unreal Engine is actually quite trivial, but unfortunately it's mostly the assets that take a lot of time. There's only so far one can get with pre-made assets from marketplace or somewhere else, but big portion of it still has to be custom made to meet the vision. I've seen quite a few other NyLeve remakes, which were in realtime, but they all struggled with quality mainly due to lack of assets, or using assets that just did not fit together. I think I could make the first level in about a month, and then, once workflow and tooling is in place I could probably remake the whole game in UE4 in about a year, but unfortunately there's no point in doing so, because it'd pay me nothing, and in the end I would not be able to release it anyway, because it's Epic's intellectual property. :)
@@LudvikKoutnyArt I started on the first 2 levels back when UT2K4 came out but school got in the way. I tried again about 2 years ago but quickly gave up because of what you just mentioned with asset creation etc to actually fit the environment, it's a ton of work for just one person, and way too much for me. So I again canned it. And yea the property thing s a bit of a bummer. I remember a Halo project that was being made and bungie gave it the ok because everything was created from scratch, even though it all looked identical to Halo. Can't see Epic doing anything like that these days. I miss when Epic made great games. Thanks for the reply. I still think Unreal has one of the best and most captivating environments and your work really captures that.
Damn. I just found this randomly and oh, how I wish for an Unreal remake at this moment. Sweet job. The huts were probably the only less detailed bit through the whole video.
Excellent stuff. I saw the comments that say that the plants are not tropical as they were in the original, but then one thing comes to my mind: Maybe the real reason that developers back then used palm trees and not 'ordinary' trees was because they were easier to render for the engine as they required less polygons for their leafs, when comparing to the hundreds of leafs in 'ordinary' trees. Think about it.
Oh my god. That's a spectacular visualisation of a Live Action version of the intro map! I was skeptical at first, thought maybe the foliage was a touch too dense just outside the ship (should've been a clearing?), but as the view unfurled I realised it didn't detract from the overall mood. It **feels** like the same level somehow! I don't know how you created that great illusion, but it works. All that's left is to figure out what the Nali Rabbits/Nali/shark/Brutes would look like. And maybe perhaps the player. (Dante?)
Holy shit, how have I never seen this before? This is amazing! I sincerely wish a remake of Unreal 1 would come out that looks like (or close) to this. Wow. I would pay a huge amount of money for that, to be honest. The sound/music should stay the same though :-P.
Looks really good, this is most realistic render I ever seen! Everything looks very real, both nature and ship, like I'm watching real video not render, this is actually gives idea how these boxy locations from Unreal would look if they existed in reality. Also about Unreal overall, for Unreal Tournament was recently released single-player mod named Project Xenome : Interloper, I suggest try it out, I can surely say it one of the best single-player mods for UT, with astonishing mapping design.
I don't know why, but people often rebuild only one level, or, if they remake de game, they do that as a mod for Unreal or UT, I would like a remake of Unreal as a game, not as a mod (hoping to see it even on consoles)
How do we get Tim Sweeney to notice this and make him think about remaking Unreal? :)
Tim has been silenced and Epic Games is not the group of young and talented guys anymore.
We need to start making Unreal ourselves :)
Those dudes are only focused on making money selling Fortnite skins. That's so sad.
@@stefanoenricomendola2182 FORSHITE
@@michalturlik7309 No. Tim is still active and calling the shots. He just stopped caring for Unreal. And now he's been cock-whipped with that Tencent and Fortnite money to ever care for Unreal anymore.
this is what my eyes were seeing when played unreal in 1998
My eyes were definitely not seeing this back in '98, my mind was :)
Well, that is true
My impression in 1998 was far away from this. Nowadays is pretty standard stuff
That is of course the same principle like when playing Baldurs Gate 2! Whats on the screen is the one thing.... what you see in your mind, on the other hand, is what makes a good game!
Totally agree! The soundtrack made te experience complete...
It´s about time for an Unreal remake!
Still never too late for an Unreal remake...
5 years later, in the dystopic reality of the current year, Epic instead washes their hands of the original Unreal and wont even let you buy it anymore, delisting the very namesake of their entire family of game engines
There's a fantastic remake in progress that bumps the graphics up to PS3 levels as seen in the Bioshock / Bioshock 2 days. It's kind of like the Half-Life "Black Mesa" remake, but of Unreal.
@@nikosv7230what is it called?
I was only sixteen when I ve seen and played Unreal for the first time...I could not imagine a better way of growing up :)
Please let a reboot of this game occur... 20 years almost...
Seems it won't ever happen...They dropped the work on UT 4 in place of spending money working on Fortnite...Super sad tbh.
No. No reboot. Remake.
@@OnyeNacho Epic won't make it, but couldn't they licence/subcontract it out to Night Dive Studios?
Every indie-studio makes a remake from Half-Life but not from Unreal. That's unreal. ^^
Half-Life can go and suck its own crowbar! Unreal Forever!
Ok lol
Unreal Redux
It's probably because of licenses and stuff like that, we all know how greedy (You could say Un-Epic) Epic games is ever since Fortnite.
While VALVe openly supports mods and standalone games of their IPs on their engine. Epic used to do that to, hosting modding contests like "Make something *Unreal" .
A cyclopean game.So immersive that I even used to wonder what lies there, beyond the horizon. I was a 10 years old kid back then but I will never forget this masterpiece. This game gave me memories and feelings I cannot describe using words.
I was seventeen when I first saw and played the original 1998 Unreal. I still remember the beauty and the exploration that I was facing and enjoying every sec. It was the time of the pc desktop graphics coming in our houses. 3dfx, Powervr, Ati, Nvidia and many others. It was the time when I learned to fly. The 90's will always be remembered as the best years for the IT and not only.
I cant forget this Game. Tnx for that Content, Awesome!
Your ship has crash landed on an unknown planet.
Look around. Crystal clear water shimmers. Shadows shift. Alien architecture fades into the horizon. Darkness falls. Walkways glow. Godless temples beckon. You are afraid. You are in the real world... but it is like no world you have ever known. You are an uninvited guest in the fastest, sleekest, most beautiful 3D world ever created.
Live it. Breathe it. Survive it.
Unreal. Alter your reality...forever.
> 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚋 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚐
You pick up the automag.
I love you bro, what a memory
And no humans.
@@michalturlik7309 Humans are there, all dead
@@adam-xt8te That guy on the Vortex Rikers driver seat who gasps one last time, he is technically alive until you approach him 😂 Next time I play I won't to near him, that'll keep him alive, lol.
this, ported to unreal and played with a VR headset ... it would have the same emotional impact as in 99 when I exited Vortex Rikers for the first time and I was hit by the open sky above, the music and the cute "bunnies" hoping around.
Amazing work and really brought up some memories :)
OMG, I forgot about the bunnies :D
Oh man, nostalgia hits hard on that one. Still I remember being 16 years old, eating pancakes, and don't having any bigger life problems. Every Unreal level was something new. Still remember how much fun gave fighting Skaarj and their ways of evading projectiles or how Na Pali haven blew up my mind with floating islands. That was something out of this world. Thanks Ludvik for your work!
I've just found your remake and I can't believe how awesome, how beautiful it is! I was watching the video with my heart racing, on the verge of bursting into tears. Thank you soooo much! Unreal is my favourite game as well
This is truly insane! If i saw a remake looking this good, -
i would probably faint on the spot.
Back in 1998, Unreal made a lot of noise and headlines - yet eventually
everything fell short of expectations. This here, could be the light at the end
of the tunnel, which would finally do the Unreal campaign (including the bravado
slogans and the fancy box) - a long deserved justice.
Wow....!!! My jaw dropped down...... It's really look alike with the game.... 👍👌
Absolutely jaw dropping....
I dropped my jaw all the video
Saying thank you is not enough. This video is a dream come true for us who loved that sudden change of atmosphere, that new world appearing at once. And the music. That music! Excellent work, excellent idea.
UNBELIEVABLE! LOVE THIS! So many childhood memories. Your vision perfectly represents what i felt back in 99. I was just 4 years old.
I have only one word to describe your amazing work. It's UNREAL
Simply wonderful
Quake fan here,this is magnificent. :D
Amazing video. I like how you looked at the sky @ 1:53 as did I in my Unreal video. Beautiful sky.
Very cool. Really great work. Especially, I like Vortex Rikers.
IMO, original Unreal nature was more jungle-like and exotic (unreal). This one looks quite midlatitudes. That a little broke my expectations.
I believe for total remake one should make templates for unreal plants.
No matter what I said :), really good work. Thanks.
Animals are missing too
I remember my feelings first time I got out of crumbling Vortex Rikers vessel. I was standing there in awe and astonishment looking around myself. What a contrast between sultry and blood-soaked premises of the ship and this vast and breathtaking vista. And this kind of graphics would make this immersion even more convincing. Hail to potential remake!
Ерден Жумабеков Меня тогда поразили вид облаков и воды, а в корабле отражения от пола, и то как через лопасти винта преломляется лучи света, для 1998 года это было просто взрыв мозга. Так же жду ремейк))
I was stunned! At first I thought it was a fan movie, but then I realized that it was a render! It's so cool, please do more levels.
My skin crawled. I guessed this moment from the first second... One small but important detail is missing: when you look at the sky, there is no soaring bird. It's been more than 20 years since I first stepped out of a wrecked ship and looked up at the sky... I am now 46 years old, but I remember this moment as yesterday... A smile and tears when I read the comments. Well, I wasn't the only survivor on that ship... )))
We need this... :( I NEED THIS... Thank you for just this portion. Man this game needs to be remade. SO MUCH!!!
This is it ,we need that , all Unreal Gold fans will like this AWESOME !!!!
At first look i thought that this is the real place. AWESOME!
Yeah... Me too...
Unreal Remake looks like that should be released as a gift for us.
Ever since the announcement of Black Mesa Source, the remake of Half Life 1 (which also released in 1998).. I've been hoping for an UNREAL GOLD remake also. This youtube video is the best example of that so far.
Whoever made this map, please make a few others!! Like the Castle map used for the game menu. Also spire + skytown would be cool.
Yea! The spire is coolest map 4 me.
Amazing Work 👏🏻🌟👍🏻
This is how it looked like in my imagination when i stepped out of the ship... 25 years ago.... amazing work
Bellissimo. Sarebbe bello giocare con questa grafica al remake di UNREAL 1
This is the only way how should remastered Unreal look like. I WANT IT! I NEED IT!!
YES! They should shut up and they should TAKE MY MONEY :D
Absolutely amazing. I would make the environment a little more true to the game though (more alien world like, glowing water etc) This game needs a remake. This game was so visually impressive for the time and when combined with the music the atmosphere was top notch.
I would cream myself if someone could do a remake and have it look this good
I keep coming back to this video, and this video and the original game really make me want to pick up learning Unreal Engine again to make a playable level.
Making Unreal based game in Unreal Engine is actually quite trivial, but unfortunately it's mostly the assets that take a lot of time. There's only so far one can get with pre-made assets from marketplace or somewhere else, but big portion of it still has to be custom made to meet the vision.
I've seen quite a few other NyLeve remakes, which were in realtime, but they all struggled with quality mainly due to lack of assets, or using assets that just did not fit together.
I think I could make the first level in about a month, and then, once workflow and tooling is in place I could probably remake the whole game in UE4 in about a year, but unfortunately there's no point in doing so, because it'd pay me nothing, and in the end I would not be able to release it anyway, because it's Epic's intellectual property. :)
@@LudvikKoutnyArt I started on the first 2 levels back when UT2K4 came out but school got in the way.
I tried again about 2 years ago but quickly gave up because of what you just mentioned with asset creation etc to actually fit the environment, it's a ton of work for just one person, and way too much for me. So I again canned it.
And yea the property thing s a bit of a bummer. I remember a Halo project that was being made and bungie gave it the ok because everything was created from scratch, even though it all looked identical to Halo. Can't see Epic doing anything like that these days. I miss when Epic made great games.
Thanks for the reply. I still think Unreal has one of the best and most captivating environments and your work really captures that.
Great work Ludvik, this was truly awesome.
Holy...fucking....shit....must have...need! This looks nearly photo realistic...we need this in UE4 !!
I think to reach THIS we need Unreal Engine 5!
Imagined something like this when played Unreal at end of nineties. It is the time to remake it on decent engine.
they have no balls, its like valve.. no half life 3.
holy shit that's breathtaking. i doubt epic games could remake it properly nowadays.
Dude, you're so talented.
This is eye-wateringly beautiful!
My goodness! Thanks for uploading this! So many memories!🙌🏽🤘🤘🤘
Consider yourself blessed, CliffyB has given his nod of approvation to your work of art on Twitter.
Love the nice scenery xxx
You really captured the essence and the feeling from the original game in this remaster love it
I always come back to this video bc i'm dumb enough to believe in a remake of this masterpiece.
WOW!! Now that is nyleve falls!!
This is exactly how I remember when I was 14!
Alexander Brandon was really channeling some alien vistas with this soundtrack.
Damn. I just found this randomly and oh, how I wish for an Unreal remake at this moment. Sweet job. The huts were probably the only less detailed bit through the whole video.
Dammn. u know how to handle that engine :O AMAZING !
Dude, this is incredible. I love it! It kinda looks like Earth tho, should be more like tropical but man, this is a work of art
This is absolutely breath-taking. Please do more!!
Awesome. It bring me back sooo beautiful memoryes, sadness and joy.
I think this game needs a comeback... like the first game, with graphics you simply cant believe but with the old magic.
Shivers. Thank you for this.
A M A Z I N G!
I wish that was an in-game footage...
Wow, amazing work!
OH. MY. FREAKING. EYES. This is sooo focking beautiful!😍
Thank you so much for this.
This is beautiful.
Excellent stuff. I saw the comments that say that the plants are not tropical as they were in the original, but then one thing comes to my mind:
Maybe the real reason that developers back then used palm trees and not 'ordinary' trees was because they were easier to render for the engine as they required less polygons for their leafs, when comparing to the hundreds of leafs in 'ordinary' trees. Think about it.
This somehow feels like being in a dream. Excellent work in all aspects.
This is beyond amazing.
man, those old synths
love this! Hats off to you :)
Выглядит очень-очень круто, видео - уровень бог, браво!)
if they took this approach to all the classic levels that would be the best remake ever
imagine a game that could look like this in real time
time will come
Breath taking just like the original !
Still my fav game. Amazing atmosphere, still gives me shivers! Great job. How long it took to build/render/process everything?
that looks incredible
Dammmmm! That is photorealism at work
Oh my god. That's a spectacular visualisation of a Live Action version of the intro map! I was skeptical at first, thought maybe the foliage was a touch too dense just outside the ship (should've been a clearing?), but as the view unfurled I realised it didn't detract from the overall mood. It **feels** like the same level somehow! I don't know how you created that great illusion, but it works.
All that's left is to figure out what the Nali Rabbits/Nali/shark/Brutes would look like. And maybe perhaps the player. (Dante?)
Wow, just incredible!!!
Epic, you should remake the entire game, even for consoles (and not as a mod), that would be amazing
it was rendered in corona through 3ds max, i think ue4 has a much different workflow from autodesk software
Absolutně úžasné 👍👍
Beautiful work, so grateful for this video man.
Holy shit, how have I never seen this before? This is amazing! I sincerely wish a remake of Unreal 1 would come out that looks like (or close) to this. Wow. I would pay a huge amount of money for that, to be honest. The sound/music should stay the same though :-P.
That's absolutely awesome bro, incredible work!
Looks really good, this is most realistic render I ever seen! Everything looks very real, both nature and ship, like I'm watching real video not render, this is actually gives idea how these boxy locations from Unreal would look if they existed in reality.
Also about Unreal overall, for Unreal Tournament was recently released single-player mod named Project Xenome : Interloper, I suggest try it out, I can surely say it one of the best single-player mods for UT, with astonishing mapping design.
Thank you, I will check that out :)
this looks amazing!
Breathtaking.
Still love dat game. Wish somebody do that under UE4...
I don't know why, but people often rebuild only one level, or, if they remake de game, they do that as a mod for Unreal or UT, I would like a remake of Unreal as a game, not as a mod (hoping to see it even on consoles)
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@@Mafla-pk8do It's a lot of work. You need a good team and who knows if Epic Games would put some kind of problem if it is done and published.
My eyes teard up, oh my god, thank you so much for this, rly
You can do it, Epic. We believe in you.
Omg dude this is beautiful
Great job. Great game. And that indescribable atmosphere of that beautiful world. 2.23 its so short... Anyway thank you.
omg this is so amazing and emotional. there is potential for real horror and amazinh atmosphere
I need this in my life.
I'd exchange this for my life
Amazing.. this should be the beginning environment for Unreal 3 campaign.
Ahhh chciał bym aby zrobili kiedyś remake gry Unreal albo film w klimacie pierwszej częsci tej gry.Moje dzieciństwo!!
Found this on Reddit. I want to play Unreal again now
Great work! :D
VERY impressive! Even more so when you realize this was made 6 years ago.
Just WOW! :)
Awesome! I want this Unreal so!
I cried watching this. We need the remake of UNREAL 1 in the Unreal engine 5.1. This MUST happen.